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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #4
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
He has a secret crush on Agnes, but he thinks she has an affection for somebody he doesn't know, so he resolved to keep it to himself.
He visited Agnes after his great aunt told him that she was going to be married," and asked her to confide her secret, which made her weep.
But he is badgering her.
'I must say more. I cannot let you leave me so! For Heaven's sake, Agnes, let us not mistake each other after all these years, and all that has come and gone with them! I must speak plainly. If you have any lingering thought that I could envy the happiness you will confer; that I could not resign you to a dearer protector, of your own choosing; that I could not, from my removed place, be a contented witness of your joy; dismiss it, for I don't deserve it! I have not suffered quite in vain. You have not taught me quite in vain. There is no alloy of self in what I feel for you.'
She was quiet now. In a little time, she turned her pale face towards me, and said in a low voice, broken here and there, but very clear:
'I owe it to your pure friendship for me, Trotwood - which, indeed, I do not doubt - to tell you, you are mistaken. I can do no more. If I have sometimes, in the course of years, wanted help and counsel, they have come to me. If I have sometimes been unhappy, the feeling has passed away. If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me. If I have any secret, it is - no new one; and is - not what you suppose. I cannot reveal it, or divide it. It has long been mine, and must remain mine.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "of your own choosing" means "she chose some prospective buyers."
2. I think "which" is the object of "doubt."
If so, I'd like to know what role "to tell you, you are mistaken" plays here.
3. I think "they" refers to "the feeling."
If so, I was wondering why it is "they," not "it."
Thank you in advance for your help.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
He has a secret crush on Agnes, but he thinks she has an affection for somebody he doesn't know, so he resolved to keep it to himself.
He visited Agnes after his great aunt told him that she was going to be married," and asked her to confide her secret, which made her weep.
But he is badgering her.
Chapter 62 A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
.................................'I must say more. I cannot let you leave me so! For Heaven's sake, Agnes, let us not mistake each other after all these years, and all that has come and gone with them! I must speak plainly. If you have any lingering thought that I could envy the happiness you will confer; that I could not resign you to a dearer protector, of your own choosing; that I could not, from my removed place, be a contented witness of your joy; dismiss it, for I don't deserve it! I have not suffered quite in vain. You have not taught me quite in vain. There is no alloy of self in what I feel for you.'
She was quiet now. In a little time, she turned her pale face towards me, and said in a low voice, broken here and there, but very clear:
'I owe it to your pure friendship for me, Trotwood - which, indeed, I do not doubt - to tell you, you are mistaken. I can do no more. If I have sometimes, in the course of years, wanted help and counsel, they have come to me. If I have sometimes been unhappy, the feeling has passed away. If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me. If I have any secret, it is - no new one; and is - not what you suppose. I cannot reveal it, or divide it. It has long been mine, and must remain mine.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "of your own choosing" means "she chose some prospective buyers."
2. I think "which" is the object of "doubt."
If so, I'd like to know what role "to tell you, you are mistaken" plays here.
3. I think "they" refers to "the feeling."
If so, I was wondering why it is "they," not "it."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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1. "a dearer protector, of your own choosing" refers to the other person he thinks she has an affection for. I don't see where "buyers" comes from.
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- "a dearer protector, of your own choosing" refers to the other person he thinks she has an affection for.
- I don't see where "buyers" comes from.
- Are you sure you mean "buyers"?
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1. "a dearer protector, of your own choosing" refers to the other person he thinks she has an affection for. I don't see where "buyers" comes from. Are you sure you mean "buyers"?
2. "I owe it to your pure friendship for me ... to tell you, you are mistaken". Because of his pure friendship, she has a duty to tell him.
3. "they" (plural) cannot refer to "the feeling" (singular). I
2. "I owe it to your pure friendship for me ... to tell you, you are mistaken". Because of his pure friendship, she has a duty to tell him.
3. "they" (plural) cannot refer to "the feeling" (singular). I
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Thank you, GPY, for your So very helpful answer. 
I'm so sorry; I pasted the phrase for the word prospective.
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I'm so sorry; I pasted the phrase for the word prospective.
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park sang joonI think "husbands" is suitable."protector", singular, therefore "husband", singular.
park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "of" means here."of someone's own verb-ing" is a set pattern. E.g.:
"of your own choosing" ~ that you have chosen
"of my own making" ~ that I have made
"of his own doing
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